Minnesota Reformer

State and federal officials are endangering wildlife, misusing federal grants for logging

by Minnesota Reformer | April 30, 2024
Senior managers at both the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service should be held  to account for allowing the misuse of federal grants to facilitate logging in Minnesota’s wildlife management areas and aquatic management areas. In 2020, U.S. ...

Feds withhold conservation funding over DNR logging practices

by Minnesota Reformer | August 14, 2023
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is withholding more than $20 million in conservation grants over concerns the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is allowing logging in sensitive wildlife habitat. “We applaud this action by the Fish and Wildlife Service. U.S. taxpayers should ...

Minnesota power co-op wants to invest in flexibility for fossil fuel peaker plant

by Minnesota Reformer | February 10, 2023
Clean Up The River Environment, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, the Sierra Club and other environmental organizations note that burning fuel oil instead of natural gas will increase particulate matter, mercury, lead, carcinogenic diesel exhaust and arsenic. Hudson ...
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